Google announces expanded suite of Google Drive cloud services

Claims 5 million businesses have "gone Google"

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During the second day of the Google IO 2012 extravaganza, the search giant revealed that their current stable of cloud services will be revamped to better compete in the realm of business-focused cloud computing services from Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle.

Google SVP of Chrome and Apps Sundar Pichai took the stage to introduce some of Google Drive's new functions, claiming that five million businesses, government agencies in 45 states, and 66 of the US's top universities have already "gone Google."

Pichai called the new Google Drive functionality a "radical" change from existing offerings.

A video showed off Google Hangouts, saying "The meeting has gone Google."

Google also showed off new real-time collaboration and offline use for Google Docs.

Google Director of Product Management Clay Bavor then took the stage to announce that Google Drive would be heading to iOS and Chrome OS.

He showed off new image search functionality, by which Drive recognized an image of a pyramid.

A new Google cloud service was rumored over the weekend, when multiple sources reported that Google was readying an announcement for the Google IO 2012conference this week.